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But FEAR NOT if not possible for you to join 'live' in your location at those times, as the entire sitting is recorded in 'REAL TIME' and available for full participation 'on demand' at any time after that, no different from the 'live' sitting :

As you can see, our Zazenkai consists of chanting the 'Heart Sutra' in English (the words are at the link below), some full floor prostrations in sets of three (please follow along with me ... or a simple Gassho can be substituted if you wish), followed by our Dedication, Zazen twice for 30 minutes each, with 10 minutes of Kinhin in between, and we end the sitting with 'The Verse of Atonement' and 'The Four Vows'.

Please download and print out the words of the Chants we will recite at the following link:

Re: January 29th, 2011 Friday/Saturday Zazenkai

Have to share something that may be a Treeleaf first, mobile zazenkai!

I was running late on my way home and was a bit bummed out that I was going to be late to zazenkai...when I remembered that I had downloaded a couple of Ustream apps on my phone.

So I opened up the Ustream viewer, filtered on Jundo for live broadcasts and bingo there you guys were! I popped my phone in my GPS holder and was able to do the chants, bows (no prostrations of course...) and modified-zazen while driving home, at which time I switched to normal laptop mode to finish up.

Re: January 29th, 2011 Friday/Saturday Zazenkai

Thank you to all who sat and will sit, here and there, now and then.
To Jundo and all in Tsukuba; all those in ustream; as well as Shujin and Roky straddling ustream and Zen Hall; Shawn on his means in addition!
Gassho all,
Engyo

Re: January 29th, 2011 Friday/Saturday Zazenkai

... and modified-zazen while driving home, at which time I switched to normal laptop mode to finish up.

Technology is amazing isn't it?

Gassho,

Shawn

Yes, well, Lotus Posture makes it hard to reach the brake pedal. so not recommended :shock:

I went to an art museum in Tokyo yesterday at which some well known artists were using Ustream to create video art installations. One fellow, for example, used two Ustream live netcasts simultaneously to create a single image, half broadcast from the art gallery, and half from somewhere else in the world. Very cool. One theme of the exhibit was using audio-visual media to change our concepts of space, and "here there now then" ... the theme around this place too.

Re: January 29th, 2011 Friday/Saturday Zazenkai

Hi all,

Wasn't able to join in the Zazenkai (Friday night my time) becuse of my tea lesson. I have borrowed/hijacked the family computer and moved it to a spare room(much better than the kitchen where it usually sits) so that i can participate on demand tomorrow morning!

Thanks Shawn for posting about using ustream though a mobile device. I saw that when i registered and was curious.